Bio

Peter Wolnizer served as Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Business at The University of Sydney from 1999-2010 and as Professor of Accounting until his retirement at the end of 2011. The University of Sydney Senate conferred on him the title Professor Emeritus taking effect from the date of his retirement.

Prior to returning to The University of Sydney, where he had been a lecturer and senior lecturer over eleven years, Professor Wolnizer served as Dean of the Faculty of Business and Law at Deakin University (1991-1998) following his appointment as Foundation Professor of Accounting and Finance in 1989. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Kansas, University of Glasgow, Czech Management Center, University of Canterbury and Korea University; and a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Utah.

Professor Wolnizer was appointed Chairman of the International Accounting Education Standards Board from 2012-14, having served as the first Australian member of the IAESB (2004-06). He served on the Board of Directors of AACSB International (2006-11); Strategic Board of the Community of European Management Schools and International Companies, CEMS (2008-10); Board of Directors of Capital Markets CRC Ltd (2007-10); Council of the Association of Asia Pacific Business Schools (2004-10); and as President of the Australian Business Deans Council (2004-05). He was a member of Australia's Corporations and Securities Panel from 1994-99.

His service to the wider educational community has included membership of the Councils of Scotch College (Melbourne), The Scots College (Sydney) and Moore Theological College (Sydney). He currently serves on the Board of the Sydney Diocesan Secretariat and the Glebe Administration Board of the Anglican Church in Sydney.

Professor Wolnizer was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia in the 2011 Queen's Birthday Honours List 'for service to higher education in business and economics as an academic and administrator'.

1999

Journal Article/s

Carnegie G and Wolnizer P 1999 'Unravelling the rhetoric about the financial reporting of public collections as assets: A response to Micallef and Peirson', Australian Accounting Review, vol.9:1, pp. 16-21

1987

Book/s

1985

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Journal Article/s

Wolnizer P 1985 'Correspondence with the facts- a recurrent theme in commentaries on the statutory quality standard of truth and fairness in accounts', Company and Securities Law Journal, vol.August:147-161